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The document that will set the financial course for the fiscal year starting July 1 and unquestionably higher tax bills – the 2023-24 city budget – was reviewed by the City Council Monday …
The city closed out the 2022 Fiscal Year on June 30, 2022 with a $33 million unassigned fund balance, an increase of $2 million from the prior year. That’s good news for Mayor Frank Picozzi …
Even when cities and towns decide how they want to spend their federal largesse, getting the money out the door takes time
Hereâs whoâs going to work for the new mayors in Cranston, Warwick, and Central Falls The new mayors will be sworn in next week, and theyâve already named a few people to their respective staffs. By Dan McGowan Globe Staff,Updated December 29, 2020, 9:36 a.m. Email to a Friend LEADING OFF Happy Tuesday and welcome to Rhode Map, your daily guide to everything happening in the Ocean State. Iâm Dan McGowan and now Bill Belichick knows what itâs like to play âMaddenâ online against some 12-year-old who just wants to run up the score against old people. Follow me...
Who knows at the time what memories will stay with them all their lives? Arriving on the island one morning just after the new year in 1973 with Peder Schaefer, a friend and co-worker from summers at the Narragansett Inn, I literally took off for an island tour in a jeep Eleanor Mott had graciously made available to us. The day was bright sun, charged by a blistering wind that blew us from side to side down the deserted roads, the light glinting off the snow and ice which enveloped the frozen landscape in every direction. After we descended Bush Lot Hill and headed toward Sandy Point, the sig...